I forgot to mention it in the game wrap for the Reds, but Corey Patterson made his terrible return to the Reds yesterday. I don’t have a problem with the Reds calling him up–they just lost Ryan Freel to the DL and Griffey is suffering from something unclear. There was a clear need for an outfielder.

Barring the first week of the season, Patterson has shown that he cannot hit any type of pitching, major or minor league. Where would a sensible person put an offensive liability like Patterson? Somewhere down in the bottom of the lineup, 7th or 8th. Heck, even 9th could be defensible, given the growing idea of having a speedster bat there instead of the pitcher.

Alas, the Reds manager is not a sensible person. Dusty Baker sports a HUGE man-crush on Patterson, and decided to bat him second. Cubs bloggers were turning their hair out over this fatal attraction when Baker managed there. How are Reds bloggers doing?

Not good.